OG 37

[karryfan]

37. While some academicians believe that business ethics should be integrated into every business course, others say that students will take ethics seriously only if it would be taught as a separately required course.

(A) only if it would be taught as a separately required course
(B) only if it is taught as a separate, required course
(C) if it is taught only as a course required separately
(D) if it was taught only as a separate and required course
(E) if it would only be taught as a required course, separately

Choice B is best; in sentences expressing a conditional result (x will happen if y happens), the verb of the main clause should be in the future tense and the verb of the if clause should be in the present indicative. Thus, is taught (in B) is consistnt with will take, whereas would be taught (in A and E) and was taught (in D) are not. For clarity, only in C, D, and E should immediately precede the entire if clause that it is meant to modify. Also, the intended meaning is distorted when the adverb separately is used to modify required, as in A and C, or taught, as in E; B correctly uses the adjective separate to modify course.

我想請問正確答案為什麼可以用 a separate, required course ?
中間不需要用 and 平衡嗎? 可以直接用逗號分隔二個形容詞, 用來形容同一個名詞?

[Ajinaruto]

這個句子應該沒啥問題

形容詞是可以好幾個接續起來形容名詞的
簡單的可以不用放comma也可以
Ex. a red Italian sports car(red,Italian, sports都是adj)
或用comma來平衡
Ex. a popular, respected, and good looking student

可以用comma,也可用對等連接詞
我個人認為看句意怎樣使用會精簡而且清楚為原則

[karryfan]

真是太謝謝您的回答了...這些結構真的是有點弄不清楚.....

還有想請問一下, OG 的 49 題的這種形容詞和副詞混著形容名詞 , 也是常見的用法?

49. The cameras of the Voyager 2 spacecraft detected six small, previously unseen moons circling
Uranus, doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known to orbit the distant planet.

[Ajinaruto]

一樣阿
six,small,跟unseen都是adj
然後previously副詞修飾unseen
沒有什麼問題